{"id":196388,"date":"2024-09-19T11:22:28","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T16:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/dna-stored-on-crystal-could-bring-back-humanity-billions-of-years-after-extinction"},"modified":"2024-09-19T11:22:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T16:22:28","slug":"dna-stored-on-crystal-could-bring-back-humanity-billions-of-years-after-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/dna-stored-on-crystal-could-bring-back-humanity-billions-of-years-after-extinction","title":{"rendered":"DNA stored on crystal could bring back humanity billions of years after extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dna-stored-on-crystal-could-bring-back-humanity-billions-of-years-after-extinction3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>British scientists have stored DNA information for an entire human on a crystal, which could be used to bring back humanity if we become extinct.<\/p>\n<p>The team from the University of Southampton\u2019s Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) used lasers to inscribe the data on a 5D crystal, which they said can survive for billions of years.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike other storage formats, it does not degrade over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British scientists have stored DNA information for an entire human on a crystal, which could be used to bring back humanity if we become extinct. The team from the University of Southampton\u2019s Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) used lasers to inscribe the data on a 5D crystal, which they said can survive for billions of years. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}